The tablets recovered in Mozan during the sixth season of excavations in
1990 represent the northernmost find to date of well stratified
cuneiform texts for the third millennium. They are accounts of people
listed by name, profession and sometimes provenienceThe guage in which
the texts are written is plausibly Old Akkadian, and so is a majority of
personal names, but several names may be explained as Hurrian The date
is that of the later portion of the Sargonic period. Besides providing a
complete philological treatment of the texts, this fascicle briefly
describes the archaeological context - a stratigraphically well defined
deposit within a sizeable stone building; it also provides a brief
report on the work of the sixth season of excavations.